What's on / Archive 2017-12-27

25 Nov-4 March. Exhibition showing an extensive number of contemporary art works, from the 1990s and 2000s, donated by the German collector Thomas Borgmann. The exhibition, which occupies some 2,540 s...

15 Dec-15 April. Vienna's School of Arts and Crafts was established in 1867 at the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, known today as the Austrian Museum of Contemporary Art or MAK, as...

28 Nov-25 Feb. The Musée d'Orsay marks the centenary of the death of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) with an exhibition based around the writings of his friend, the writer, poet and thinker Paul Valéry (187...

17 Oct-21 Jan. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid contrasts the works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in an unprecedented exhibition.
The show, which features more than 100 works fro...

23 Nov-18 Feb. CaixaForum pays tribute to the Italian master and founder of the metaphysical art movement Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) with a retrospective of his work. The exhibition spans de Chiri...

23 Nov-2 April. The work of Italian figurative painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is the subject of an exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Central to the show are 12 of Modigliani's sensuo...

18 Oct-26 Feb. The Reina Sofia dedicates an exhibition to the pioneering American cartoonist George Herriman, whose work developed in the new comic strip medium of US newspapers around the turn of the...

19 Sept-3 June. The Belgium Comic Book Centre highlights the work of a younger generation of Belgian comic authors and illustrators whose award-winning work has been translated into several languages....

23 Nov-31 Dec. Berlin's Christmas markets, set in the squares and streets of the city centre, have something for everyone. Breitscheidplatz market takes place in the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Mem...

23 Sept-3 June. Exploring diverse aspects of the theme migration, the Stedelijk Museum draws on its own collection to highlight artists' views on migration and how the subject is presented in their wo...

25 Oct-14 Jan. The National Gallery of Ireland offers a comprehensive overview of the work of Irish-born artist Frederic William Burton (1816-1900) who is best known for his highly-finished 1864 wat...

13 Nov-8 April. The result of collaboration between the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of Yugoslavia, this photographic exhibition documents Tito’s state tours of various Africa countries from the...

11 Oct-22 Jan. This exhibition at the Grand Palais is promoted as the first in-depth inclusive study of the paintings, sculpture, graphic and decorative arts by pioneering Post-Impressionist master Pa...

11 Nov-11 Feb. Dublin artist Garrett Phelan has been commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland to produce artwork in response to William Orpen’s experience as official war artist for Britain in...

13 Oct-7 Jan. This large-scale exhibition, the first of its kind, highlights the artistic role played by Paris in the work of Dutch artists from the late 18th century to the turn of the 20th century....

19 Oct-18 Feb. This exhibition takes a comprehensive look at the artistic portrayal of the deities of world religions and how their depictions have changed - in some cases drastically - over the cen...

11 Oct-5 March. A selection of 200 works charting the history of the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
The exhibition ranges from works acquired by MoMA in the 1930s such as Edwar...

14 Sept-14 Jan. The British Museum highlights the little-known Scythians, nomadic tribes and warriors, who roamed the plains of Siberia 2,500 years ago.
The museum's exhibition explores the story of...

21 Sept-28 Jan. The Barbican holds Britain's first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat whose colourful and controversial career was cut short in 1988 at the ag...

22 Sept-8 Jan. The Leopold Museum celebrates the work of Anton Kolig (1886–1950), an important Austrian painter from the first half of the 20th century.
Kolig's paintings are characterised by lumino...

21 Sept-29 Jan. The Grand Palais marks the centenary of the birth of important 20th-century photographer Irving Penn with the first major retrospective of the American artist’s work in France since hi...

6 Oct-7 Jan. The Rijksmuseum dedicates an exhibition to the Dutch master Johan Maelwael (c.1370-1415), a pioneering artist who worked at the courts of the Dukes of Guelders and Burgundy around 1400....

28 June-8 Jan. The Reina Sofía presents Spain's first retrospective dedicated to the artist group NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), which was to the cultural forefront in 1980s Yugoslavia, during the Cold...